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	<itunes:summary>Are you suffering from loss? Feeling alone? Looking for hope? Join Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley, bereaved parent/sibling on their weekly Open to Hope Internet radio show. The Horsleys are founders of Opentohope.com and international experts on finding hope after loss. Their personal journey and the stories of their guests will inspire you and motivate you to again embrace the life that you have been given.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Grieving with my twin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Lori, and I have an identical twin sister named Lisa. When we were just 16 years old, due to medical problems, Lisa was told she would never have her own children. Through a miracle, she became pregnant and had a beautiful son named Jacob. Lisa was a single mom and I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts -life of a suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=thoughts-life-of-a-suicide</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=thoughts-life-of-a-suicide#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 02:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Brother Jason died from suicide about 11 years ago,I wrote a book about his suicide and the afterlife and working in the mental health field]]></description>
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		<title>One man strugle to put his life back together</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=one-man-strugle-to-put-his-life-back-together</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=one-man-strugle-to-put-his-life-back-together#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 01:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mediate on the past event of what occurred in my life, I wonder if there was not a God could I have survived this devastation. So many times I wanted to give up and just say enough is enough I don’t need all this stress and pain in my life. But because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brianna I  just want to wake up and see you</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=brianna-i-just-want-to-wake-up-and-see-you</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=brianna-i-just-want-to-wake-up-and-see-you#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 10:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter always woke me up by climbing into bed with me, wiggling her toes into me, and touching her nose to mine. Then when I opened my eyes she would break into this smile wrinkle her nose and laugh, some times so hard she would snort which would make both of us laugh harder. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My fiance died four days ago</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-fiance-died-four-days-ago</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-fiance-died-four-days-ago#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 14:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four days ago my fiance, Bob, died of a heart attack. We were true soul mates, for lack of a less cliched phrase. We had so much in common it was like we were twins. We had only been together for eight months, but after only a few months of dating became engaged. Every day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>forest for the trees</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=forest-for-the-trees</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=forest-for-the-trees#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 11:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t lose sight of the big picture There’s a saying about not being able to see the forest for the trees. Grief to me sometimes can feel like that. You can’t see the future for the present and in this moment you are filled with the biggest sadness and emptiness humanly possible. Grief has somehow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>you asked me to let go daddy, I miss you</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=you-asked-me-to-let-go-daddy-i-miss-you</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=you-asked-me-to-let-go-daddy-i-miss-you#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 02:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Im mad, Im sad, Im numb, I want my dad to call me and tell me everything is going to be ok. I never thought Id have to let go, I never understood how tired he really was, I hate myself for asking him to fight the cancer. I was so selfish and Im still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An incredible love</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=an-incredible-love</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=an-incredible-love#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 00:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 1991 when I first met Peggy, my surgical oncologist’s nurse. She was a small framed woman in her late forties, no taller than 5’2”. With every visit, she greeted me with a warm hug and an even warmer smile. Little did I know that behind that grace filled smile was a woman battling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I want my daddy back</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=i-want-my-daddy-back</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=i-want-my-daddy-back#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 17:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opentohope.com/?p=40648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am]]></description>
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		<title>Griefing for the loss of my wife</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=griefing-for-the-loss-of-my-wife</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=griefing-for-the-loss-of-my-wife#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 06:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My late wife Ely passed away on March 19 after a long illness suffering from Cardiomyopathy. We have been together for almost 30 years and have never seperated. Since her death, I almost went to the graveyard to visit her everyday in spite of looking at the slideshow at home all day of all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, another Mother&#8217;s Day&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=yes-another-mothers-day</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=yes-another-mothers-day#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 14:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opentohope.com/?p=40144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mothers Day – 2011 There is no word in English to describe that parent who has lost a child. There is no such word in any language. I can only assume that is because it is the unthinkable. It is against nature, against all that should be. And yet it happens. It has happened to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day as a Bereaved Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=mothers-day-as-a-bereaved-mom</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=mothers-day-as-a-bereaved-mom#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 04:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a while I wondered if winter would ever leave, though the calendar said it had. However, the gorgeous weather of this past week is proof that spring has unmistakably arrived. The sights and sounds outside my window do not lie. The neighborhood children have shed their winter coats and I hear their gleeful laughter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Buddy</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=remembering-buddy</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=remembering-buddy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 01:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opentohope.com/?p=40142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, I lost my 2 1/2 year old son Daniel Jr., in a drowning accident. Five years later, though the pain is not as intense, I still feel the emptiness from his absence. He never got to grow up and everytime my older daughter gets to a milestone, I know, it will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my Sonshine taked away&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-sonshine-taked-away</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-sonshine-taked-away#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opentohope.com/?p=40140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Jan,16,2007 my Mom passed away from lung cancer(6 mths after diagnoses), Than tragically my 22 yr old Son passed away on Sept.07.2009, than 2 mnths later my 43 cousin passed(suicide), than just this past November 26,2010 my only brother passed away(apparent suicide,suspicious death).I am more than beside myself&#8230;the only thing that is keeping me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>our beautiful jo holly</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=our-beautiful-jo-holly</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=our-beautiful-jo-holly#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[one year ago tonight our 27 year old high school art teacher who graduated amgna cum laude and loved her students and her profession succumbed to the pain and agony of self-medicating bipolar disease. she had developed it after years of anxiety and found pain killers could help ease her pain but of course they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 angels lost</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=2-angels-lost</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=2-angels-lost#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were 2 angels sent from heaven to earth, just lent to us for a brief time. During that time, the angels showed others the meaning of love, caring and compassion. The first angel was called home 10 months ago and was my sister Laurie. She was an angel through and through with a heart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my son patrick</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-son-patrick</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-son-patrick#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i lost my son patrick 7 months ago .he was 8 years old .he died in an abandon house fire . he died september 17,2010 . that was the worsed day of my life . ive been trying to deal with his death but it seems like my crying everyday never stops .]]></description>
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		<title>the letter</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=the-letter</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=the-letter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.opentohope.com/?p=40031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was a good day. We had company show up from out of town. I was very busy working on tax returns (I am a CPA working from home), but they were a welcome treat. Our new adopted &#8220;home town&#8221; had several celebrations going on and we took in all the festivities. We came home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I cant console the loss of my wife</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=i-cant-console-the-loss-of-my-wife</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=i-cant-console-the-loss-of-my-wife#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is now 8 months since I lost my Darling wife of 36 years and I cry more than I have ever done before(she was 56 years of age when she died after fighting cancer for 2.5 yrs).For me there will never be “closure” I am so scared for her that perhaps after this life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Smile Again Story</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=the-smile-again-story</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=the-smile-again-story#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 15, 1994, I received a call from my Dad. He told me I better get to the hospital, the doctors didn’t think my brother would make it through the day. My heart fell out of my body and I couldn’t breath. I heard something in my Dad’s voice that I couldn’t deny. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not knowing Mum had died</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=not-knowing-mum-had-died</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=not-knowing-mum-had-died#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be a year on April the 2nd which was good Friday that I found out my poor mother had died. She had been dead nearly 2 years but my father wanted to punish me for things past so did not tell me and got one of his sisters to telephone me and tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day you died.</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=the-day-you-died</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=the-day-you-died#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It been six months (yesterday) since my brother died suddenly. A unknown man on the end of the phone, spoke to me. He told me you were dead. He bought me to my knees. His news shattered my life beyond repair. I sobbed as I tried to recall and reclaim your life back. The screams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a hole in my heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband Keith spent 10 months battling cancer. Together we fought it&#8230;.chemo, radiation and more radiation. He was in so much pain we had to go to hospice. They gave him so much morphine &#8211; I feel like that is what killed him. He died 2 weeks after we went to hospice house. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My brother</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brother was taken from me in 2010. I am finding it difficult coming to terms with never seeing him or hearing his voice again. I try to hide my grief and upset from those around me but when I am on my own I cry as i think about all the times we spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dad took his own life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up basically alone with my daddy. We didnt have much but man did i idolise him! He was my hero, my safety net and my protector. He was all I actually had as I was not close with my 2 sisters because of the huge age gap between us and my mother was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mum killed by a brick wall</title>
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		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=mum-killed-by-a-brick-wall#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[on the 1st Feb this year my mum was at home gardening on a week off from work, a solid brick wall from an out building just fell on her and crushed her to death, my dad came home from work and found her, she had been there around 4hours we think, there is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Twins and Their Shadows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fourth grade year concluded with long shadows cast over it. The class was all elbows and knees. Among my classmates were “the twins”, Bobby and Ricky &#8211; the source of fascination. 2 people who seemed to be versions of the other was mysterious to us all. Then, one morning in February, the principle arrived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frankfort, Kentucky Regional Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please join us for our Compassionate Friends regional conference March 25 &#038; 26 in Frankfort, Kentucky. &#8220;Words of Wisdom, Hearts of Love&#8221; This conference is for any one touched by the death of a child. Exec. Dir., of The Compassionate Friends, Pat Loder wil be joining us as well as past President of the Board, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frankfort, Kentucky Regional Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please join us for our Compassionate Friends regional conference March 25 &#038; 26 in Frankfort, Kentucky. &#8220;Words of Wisdom, Hearts of Love&#8221; This conference is for any one touched by the death of a child. Exec. Dir., of The Compassionate Friends, Pat Loder wil be joining us as well as past President of the Board, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost my soulmate after only 6 months of marriage.</title>
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		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=lost-my-soulmate-after-only-6-months-of-marriage#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is all new and so unexpected. Wow one year you are preparong for the wedding of your dreams and the following year you are burying your new spouse. Is this a bad dream or what? The emotions are higher than a rollercoaster. I could have never imagined being on this journey. I am, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grieving With Help After Our Son&#8217;s Suicide</title>
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		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=grieving-with-help-after-our-sons-suicide#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 01:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were not left alone after our son, Joshua, died by suicide. People from across the states took the time to listen and some cried with us. It would take pages to mention them name-by-name, but because of who he was to Joshua, I’ll choose one. After Joshua’s memorial, when the hall emptied out and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Aaron</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thru the years we had our ups and downs. Then stigma people put on some for being addicted to drug is horrible. My son had gotten &#8220;clean&#8221; but then relapsed while with a &#8220;friend&#8221;. Things had gotten so GOD between us over the past year or so. We talked and laughed and became close like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing a daughter to cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My beautiful first born daughter died three days before she turned 26 from cancer. She fought so hard for 14 months but the cancer was so aggressive and she lost her battle. Our family never lost hope and thought that God would answer our prayers and we would have our miracle, but it did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Things That Should Never Be Broken… Hearts,</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I walk into the extra bedroom at my parent’s home, I notice the little frame on the dresser. A small simple frame, it holds a note that is written in my brother’s hand. On the note is written: “Three things that should never be broken; Hearts Promises And Friendships” There is a large space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my mind keeps denying that my dad is gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[well i am 23 and single i used live with both my parents my parents had been married for 30 years and no matter how much they fought they loved each other like anythin, i mean they used to talk and talk all night still.. my dad was so good lookin and he used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I miss you Kenny</title>
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		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=i-miss-you-kenny#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son Kenny died at 26 on this pass Thanksgiving Day 2010. Although he was a quadriplegic after being shot in November 2009, he was still here; at times he would smile, tell jokes and crack up laughing. I am so angry at the person who shot him, and never being caught, the nursing homes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Beautiful angel is at rest</title>
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		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-beautiful-angel-is-at-rest#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well i dont know where to start,My beautiful daughter was only 25 she commited suicide on the 1st dec 2010.She had spoke about it over the last few years on and off but on the night before she lay down with me and told me what her plans were,i didnt want to belive so off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathless</title>
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		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=breathless#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breathless A new day comes, and all I think about are the days gone by, the days that were once filled with your beautiful presence I am breathless Inhaling pain, exhaling sorrow. When the sun goes down it falls heavily on my heart, making for yet another sleepless night, full of anxiety and fear I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tunnel of Torment</title>
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		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=tunnel-of-torment#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since you left I have found myself in what can only be described as a pure tunnel of torment. Sorrow has become my soul mate. Pain a new companion. Fear my unpredictable friend. As for grief, I’m not sure what to make of it this very minute. It’s a menace, the imaginary gun to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sudden death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writting hoping to get some help 4 month ago my son passed away suddenly at 29 years of age the dr had over prescibed his methodone i am having days when I cry as though I have been cut in half and not sleeping feeling like I dont want to be here anymore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my baby boy&#8217;s death</title>
		<link>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-baby-boys-death</link>
		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-baby-boys-death#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish no mother would ever have to go through what did . I lost my baby boy age 15 minuits old on the 4th december 2007 at u-h-w hospital in cardiff it was the worst day of my life he had spinabifida and hydrocephuls . He was the most beautyfulest baby u could of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my mother&#8217;s deth</title>
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		<comments>http://www.opentohope.com/?post=my-mothers-deth#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i am 35 years old, till my childhood my only gurdain,friend &#038; welwisher was my mother. she blindly love me &#038; always support me in my all works., if anything going wrong with me, ma try to save me &#038; inspire me to overcame this. she was a lovely &#038; joyfull lady. life give her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My children, Paul &amp; Alexa (2/28/10)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valentines Day, Loss and Hope Since I was 7 years old, Valentines Day has been the anniversary for my sister Amy Beth. Amy was born on that day in 1971. She was as normal as her four older brothers and sisters, yet she cried all the time and sharing a bedroom, my living baby doll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my wife and kidney disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife was the kindest person i ever fell in love with, she would help a person even when she was in pain herself, she loved to cook and she would cook for friends neighbors strangers that was sick or needed a hand. my wife had kidney disease and was on dialysis 3 times a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My eldest son gone to soon.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son passed away 9 months ago he was 23 yrs old. I miss him so much my pain is still so raw. I am a strong woman and I have stayed strong for my husband and two other sons. I have now been in survival mode for the past nine months. My youngest son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>g in training</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my boyfriend and i lived together for a year but we went on a break a week before he passed and he moved home. he and i were unseparable. from the day i met him we talked or saw eachother everyday. the last week he n i werent together everyday last time we talked was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>just the two of us. me and mum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/myynewlife my full story.]]></description>
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		<title>IN MEMORY OF MY SON</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN MEMORY OF MY SON By Kelly Crawley On Jan.30, 2007, around 7:00pm, my family and I were driving home from my mother- in -law’s house. We were on a back road out in the country about a mile and a half from our home. I was looking around for deer. Then, all of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Loved After Loss on Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Suzy Yehl Marta, Founder of Rainbows For All Children Valentine’s Day is synonymous with love, romance, roses and more. Often called a Hallmark holiday, Valentine’s Day can be a difficult time when grieving a loss or life altering change. On my first Valentine’s Day after my divorce, I was innocently walking through Hallmark I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though the calendar reads mid-January the days are getting longer. Someone said that at this time of year the daylight increases by 3 minutes each twenty-four hours; that comforts me, even though it was 10 degrees this morning. That soft evening light that stretches over the river and trees by my house gives me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sadly missed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my mum suddenly passed away recently in such a tragic way.im finding it very difficult to deal with the pain is too much.im still so shocked and cant take it in,never felt this sad in my life,i feel numb and so lost.my mum was my rock and shes been taken from me in a bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>losing a friend in a one car wreck with drunk driv</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[73 days ago, november 9th, 2010, i lost a girl who meant so much to me. rachel lutrell. she was always there, always could make me smile, always knew what to do to make anyoine smile or make anything fun. yeah, we had our fights, but she meant the world to me. she died in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Boy, a Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It¹s cold this morning in the mountains, really cold. While I was preparing to post my blog for the week something was gnawing at me, a sad incident that wouldn¹t leave me alone. Yesterday a local boy was found in the snow after 2 days of searching. The first of these nights was 17 below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sudden Loss of My Baby Brother</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 1st 2010, my life changed suddenly. All I can remember is my dad calling crying saying Ty was in a tragic car accident and we didnt know what was going to happen. 30 minutes later he was gone&#8230;I couldnt say I love you one more time, no more hugs, no more promises, no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Grief A Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 16 year old son recently made a video about teen grief. He asked other teens to tell their stories, and used them to create the video. He was also approached by other teens who told him that they thought it was great that he was making it, but that they just could not bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing in the rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the sounds of the patter I did not create Dancing in the rain Fast and furious is my pace Dancing in the rain Can’t stop these piercing needles dictate Dancing in the rain Cos I’m wet, drenched soaked to the core I have no choice but to dance in the rain For my son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shh&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They see me smiling They don’t know why They are so bewildered They thought you died You are so alive to me my Dit Right here in my heart For my son Ibrahim Bash-Taqi 12.02.93 &#8211; 24.11.10]]></description>
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		<title>i  love and miss my daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[most of the time i appear to look o.k. on the outside but my insides are not. most of the time i dont understand why i am here on this earth most of the time i dont want to be here on this earth i would rather be with my child i feel as though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i  love and miss my daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[most of the time i appear to look o.k. on the outside but my insides are not. most of the time i dont understand why i am here on this earth most of the time i dont want to be here on this earth i would rather be with my child i feel as though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Boy, A Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s cold this morning in the mountains, really cold. While I was preparing to post my blog for the week something was gnawing at me, a sad incident that wouldn’t leave me alone. Yesterday a local boy was found in the snow after 2 days of searching. The first of these nights was 17 below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>love and death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[yes my name is hamid. i am iranian this means i come from iran and now i live in iran. yes my story is about love and death i was 17 that understood every people will die that year was a year for entering to the university thought of death caused to i didnot enter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>friends hurt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[hello im milad 18 year i always got hurt from my near friends now i afraid off every one that wants to be my friend]]></description>
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		<title>come back Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[im 22years old and on the 29th november 2010 i recieved a phone call from my mum telling me the worst and most life shattering news &#8221; your dads died&#8221; at that very moment my life seemed to stop. i miss him every second of every day. nothing seems to matter anymore and i just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>loss of child and husband</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lost my 42 year old son to lung cancer in 2007, my mother 6 months later. My husband who had alzheimer passed away October 16, this year. I thought after so many months of taking care of him and watching him diminish I would be ready. The last day of his life we spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>papa i m missng you</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i am 24 yrz old&#8230;my papa loved me a lot he alwz encouraged me boosted me in all problems&#8230;he wanted me to be an officer in civil servicz&#8230;.i am living in a very strict and narrow minded social set up,,,but my papa gave me full freedom of thought and expression,,,he waz much enlightend person despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sensitive Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading a history of caroling in Greece, this jumped out&#8230; &#8230;These carolers have far more consideration for the feelings of their fellow &#8211; creatures than English carolers&#8230; the candle lighter is always sent on ahead to inquire of the household that they propose to visit if there is mourning in the house&#8230; Here is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my daughter and my best friend was killed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my daughter was killed by her husband she married 2 weeks prior to her death that horrible night in nov.4,2009. her murderer took thier roomate hostage held him with agun for 12 hours he finally gave himself up at 5p.m. in the morning i just finished the trial about 2 months ago this is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why am I mourning this way?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was June 11th when my grandmother was diagnode with cancer noone expected this news my grandma was always so energetic,cheerful and upbeat. It was so hard for the family to cope with the news but we all thought that we would have more time with her, sadly her illness took drastic and fast effects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keith Loehr Memorial Scholarship Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband, Dick, and I have set up a &#8220;Keith Loehr Memorial Scholarship&#8221; at Purdue University. ( Dick and I both graduated from Purdue.) For: Graduate Student in Counseling, College of Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette Campus The purpose of this scholarship is to provide financial support for a student who has an interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hole in my heart daughter died of overdose</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[0n 4/18/2008 my only daughter katrina died methadone overdose leaving behind her 8 yr old daughter genesis on that day my life changed forever she was found dead on the bathroom floor of a battered womens shelter 2 days after her brothers daughter was born i had mixed emotions .when she died we were on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hole in my heart daughter died of overdose</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[0n 4/18/2008 my only daughter katrina died methadone overdose leaving behind her 8 yr old daughter genesis on that day my life changed forever she was found dead on the bathroom floor of a battered womens shelter 2 days after her brothers daughter was born i had mixed emotions .when she died we were on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Errol Clifford was pure joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 03:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Errol Clifford died last year and we are grief stricken. We still find hope in his joy and optimism. http://www.errolclifford.com/]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling sad for a friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2.I am 41 yrs old man. From my school days I used to like a classmate of mine. Though I loved her so much it was beyond my scope to express it. I used to love her within my own mind. Ultimately she was married to another person 18 years back and I was married [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my princess katrina</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[on 4/18/2008 my life changed forever i was told my 23 yr old daughter katrins was found dead on a bahroom floor in a battered womens shelter 2 days after her twin brothers daughter was born she died of a drug overdose and also left behind her 8 yr old daughter im searching for any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my daughter princess katrina</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my only daughter katrina died of a drug overdose on 4/18/2008 she was found on the bathroom floor of a battered womens shelter she left behind her child genesis she died 2 days after her twin brother had his first child a girl i live in a small town with no support at all please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my princess katrina</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[on 4/18/2008 my life changed forever i was told my 23 yr old daughter katrins was found dead on a bahroom floor in a battered womens shelter 2 days after her twin brothers daughter was born she died of a drug overdose and also left behind her 8 yr old daughter im searching for any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My grandson Jay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today has been a really hard day our first Thanksgiving without Jay. He died in an tragic auto accident on June 15, 2010 he was 16 years old. I went to the accident scene something I wish I had not done as did my husband, The way the person told us about his death was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>missing a loving daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[on 8-27-2008 at 10:50 am my daghter die of aplastic anemmia,she need it a bone marrow transplant and we couldnt find one,we lok every where and wasnt a match,my family was tested and only 3 people was half match my older daughter melissa,my 5 years old grandson and an aunt in guatemala city,but it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My son, my bestfriend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan came into this world on Aug 20, 1990. He was born with a head full of red hair. I was a single mom and was ready for our adventure. 5 year later I married a man and we had a daughter, Heather. I was content with my life, for awhile. I had one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i not only lost my mother i lost my best friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i lost my mum 6weeks ago it was a acddent that was never ment to happen i feel lost confussed numb angry and words cant express how am feeling at the moment it would be good to keep in contact with people that are going thought the same as they will understand what am going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost my mother and little sister on the same day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all were going to another city to spend our holidays on 12th June 2010. My dad was driving the car and stopped it at the roadside to receive a phone call. A 16 wheeler truck came from behind, lost its balance due to high speed n the sharp turn and tilted and fell on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Lost Around Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband of 12 years died 10 months ago. I am looking toward Thanksgiving with much trepidation. My husband always baked and carved the turkey, who will do it this year&#8230;What have people done to cope with the holidays, any advice?]]></description>
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		<title>My Jimmy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read your link about holding hands, I didnt realize until I read that &#8211; how much that is missed. We too always held hands and they fit just right&#8230;.I dont think there would ever be another hand that will fit so perfectly. Holding hands helped me feel better, safe, and loved. Jimmy had a [...]]]></description>
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